“I’m that misbehaving Nasty Wench, writing and creating history, making the good wives and patriarchs anxious” with Dr. Kristalyn Shefveland

The personal legacies of Kathleen Brown, William Byrd ancestry, tips for scholars and graduate students researching in the archive, Walt Disney’s failed Slavery-themed theme park, ethnic foldaways in Indiana, discussing how reality television can be used to teach historical memory and the Lost Cause myth, and much, much more! 

Kristalyn Shefveland's twitter: @kristalynmarie

Recommended Reading

Anglo-Native Virginia: Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018).

Classic Restaurants of Evansville (Charleston, S.C.:The History Press, 2020)

Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1996)

Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975)

Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)  

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